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Shut Your Piehole, Tomi Lahren
Dear Tomi Lahren: This is just a quick note to let you know how much you get on my nerves. I don’t even follow you on Twitter, but people are always retweeting your inanity onto my timeline, and then I am forced to have a thought about it. Like today. Someone shared a tweet from…
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Georgia Lawmakers Prove They Work for the NRA and Not the People in Their State
Delta Airlines is one of the biggest employers in the state of Georgia. It has a hub at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. You’d think that state legislators would want to protect and nurture that relationship, but you’d be wrong. Delta was one of many companies to end their business relationship with the National Rifle Association…
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Ben Carson Wants to Cut HUD Funding, but Not His Office-Redecoration Budget
While Ben Carson was busy refusing to answer Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green’s question about proposed Department of Housing and Urban Development budget cuts, Carson’s office was being redecorated with a brand-new $31,000 dining room set. The New York Times reports that just one month after a whistleblower complained about Carson’s wife, Candy, insisting that…
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Erykah Badu’s Daughter Puma Matches Her Mother in Looks and Voice: Video
When your mother is Erykah Badu, you can’t help growing up with talents in your own right (or Wright, as it were). We’ve already seen plenty of videos with the now 13-year-old Puma flexing her tremendous vocal skills. It is evident that she has been getting vocal lessons since the womb. Puma repaid her mother…
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Pegging: Kink-Shaming Keeps Us From Fully Enjoying Butt Play
As a cishet woman, I will admit that while I am not into anal sex, I do love a little butt play during sex—and I know I’m not alone in this. There are plenty of men who are into butt play, too, whether it’s a finger or two at a time or a strap-on dildo,…
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California May Make Ethnic-Studies Course a High School Graduation Requirement
Many moons ago, when I was a student at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, the Black Student Union organized a protest and sit-in in the principal’s office because they weren’t going to allow us to put on a talent show for the whole school, and they took away a black-history class that was taught…
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#NetNeutrality: Doomsday Is Here—It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
We knew it was coming, and the day is finally here. The Federal Communications Commission published its ironically named new rules, the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, in the Federal Register on Thursday. It’s the end of the Internet as we know it. OK, maybe not right this minute. The effective date for most of the…
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Oprah Cares, Even if Republicans in Florida Don’t
Even if Republican Party politicians in the state of Florida don’t care about the survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Oprah Winfrey does. The media mogul announced Tuesday evening that she would be joining Amal Clooney and her actor husband, George, in donating $500,000 to the student organizers of…
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Charges Dropped Against All Durham, NC, Confederate-Statue Protesters
There were 12 defendants charged in connection with the Aug. 14, 2017, toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., and by Tuesday afternoon, the charges had been dropped against all of them, ending what one local attorney described as “a waste of taxpayer money in the name of the Confederacy, of all things.” The…
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#MuteRKelly: Activists Plan a Protest at Singer’s Detroit Show
As the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements wage on, the time when any accused sexual predator could get a pass is long gone. Any and everyone is being called out, including those who may have once been allowed to slide because of the love people have for their music. You know, like R. Kelly. The Detroit…
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